The Education of a British-Protected Child, There Was A Country etc. Born in Ogidi in present-day Anambra State on November 16, 1930, Chinua Achebe who was baptized as Albert was indeed a child ...

Born into a family of Christian converts in eastern Nigeria in 1930, Achebe was educated in local Anglican schools and went onto become one the first graduates of the University of Ibadan.

Chinua Achebe's latest book ... of There was a Country set the context - the world into which he was born, the education he got, the friends he made, the woman he fell in love with and married ...

Here’s what you need to know about Chinua Achebe’s debut novel. Achebe told The Paris Review in 1994 that Yeats was one of his favorite poets, but that he “wouldn’t make too much of that ...

Chinua Achebe died, aged 82, almost exactly 23 years to the day a car accident in Nigeria left him paralyzed from the waist down. I wonder what Achebe scholars might make of that. I wonder ...

27Things Fall Apart%27 is among the most read books in African literature Chinua Achebe taught in the U.S. for many decades One of the towering figures of world literature is gone. Nigerian writer ...

Richard Dowden joins the greatest of all African novelists, Chinua Achebe, on his first trip back to his homeland of Nigeria for many years. The expectations of Nigerians are massive - but can ...

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe redefined the way readers understood Africa in his first novel, Things Fall Apart. Published in 1958, that book told the story of the English coming to Africa ...

Nigerian author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani was just 10 years old when she first read Chinua Achebe's groundbreaking novel "Things Fall Apart." Nigerian author Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani was just 10 years ...